I guess someone totally missed all the discussion by the 'content providers" of the "analog hole" a few years ago, and efforts to have the entire chain of audio "untappable" all the way to the speakers.
The GOP is going to make sure that RONPAUL is not going to run as a third party candidate, for the same reason. They will find his price and give him what he wants.
Third party candidates are merely spoilers in a 2 party winner-take-all system. Until we get ranked balloting and such, that's the way it's going to be. Deal with it.
>Given that they've just stiffed OEMs by announcing that literally EVERY unsold phone in the channel is now abandonware, they may NEED to start making their own. Who on earth would want to lose *more* money on phones that almost certainly won't sell?
Considering that nobody wants a Nokia Lumia, the "flagship," I'd say that abandoning Microsoft Phone OSes might be easy to do.
Maybe that was the plan. Reduce Nokia to a pile of rubble, buy the rubble, pretend it's the old Nokia. The whole Microsoft-Nokia story is all sorts of fucked up. I've got my popcorn for this soap opera.
I see nothing there bumping the trend. The last week was a hump and it's back to where it was http://ompldr.org/vZWZoZw/Screenshot-4.png People bought on the rumours of news, and now that the news is out, it's gone. Speaking of the crowd not being particularly enthused with Surface and WP8, here's the MSFT chart.
>So don't vote for Romney. Vote third party. Or stop pretending you want to make things better.
Voting for a third party is voting for the guy you hate the most.
That's the reality. Until we get rid of this current voting system we have and replace it with another, that's what we've got. Other countries have voting systems that let multiple parties thrive, but our system is a winner-take-all two party system.
There are times when placebo tests are unconscionable. QED.
Sacrificing ethics for the sake of blindly following procedure is wrong and has led to the suffering of many people. Like the above syphilis study, once the data for untreated basal cell carcinoma patients is known we shouldn't collect more data. We do not need to deny treatment to people with basal cell carcinoma.
Sure, it's not perfect science, but people are not protons in an accelerator.
Because we already know what happens to untreated cancers and have the statistics already gathered. We can compare the efficacy of these radioactive bandages to the data collected for untreated skin cancers over the last 100 years. We can then compare the efficacy or lack thereof to the historic numbers.
But we don't have to do that either. We can compare the efficacy of this treatment to other established treatments as controls. It will be either more or less effective. The key is to have something to compare.
Having people go untreated for the sake of formality is unconscionable.
Microsoft is stuck with OEMs because they don't have the resources to supply an entire computer market with their own hardware.
This is categorically false.
You have no idea how big the electronics contract manufacturers are or what they are.
They are the people who actually manufacture the devices for the OEMs. Microsoft can surely hire Foxconn or Flextronics to build their tablets. iPads and Surface tablets coming off parallel assembly lines in the same building at Foxconn. Don't think it can't or won't happen.
It's now a free-for-all on the Internet for nations to go head-to-head with malware and cyber-espionage. Just like Ike let the Soviets launch their Sputnik to clear the air (heh) about whether territorial rights extend into space (they don't), now the US and Israel have justified it for everyone else to do their own Flame and Stuxnet cyber-espionage.
Since the US is supposedly the leader of the free world, we can either lead by good example or bad. Setting a bad example gets us exactly what we deserve.
Cuing up "What Goes Around, Comes Around" by Chuck Greenberg and Shadowfax.
Meanwhile, Moody's gives Nokia a kick in the teeth, deservedly.
Nokia downgraded to junk HELSINKI (AP) â" Moody's ratings agency on Friday downgraded Nokia's debt grade to junk status, citing greater than anticipated pressure on the struggling cellphone maker's earnings after it announced plans for major cuts and global layoffs. It kept the outlook negative, meaning it could downgrade it again.
So Elop is taking a former powerhouse of a company and turning it into a patent troll. I'm so fucking impressed. It's as if Elop is *deliberately* trying to sink the company by making stupid decisions and avoiding core competencies.
This is the most rapid "controlled flight into terrain" that I've seen a large company do.
The "Burning Platform" memo went out in February of 2011. Look at the chart before - Nokia was slowly digging itself out of the hole. Look at the chart after. Just look at it.
>At least we still have Glen Greenwald, Amy Goodwin, Ben Swann, and some alternate news channels like RT, Al Jazeera, BBC International, et. al. Not that any one of them is to be trusted implicitly but where they tend to agree there might be some truth.
I find GG shrill and high-pitched in his writing far too often even though he is right many times. It makes him difficult to read.
I too get much of my news from non-US sources. Al J English is top notch, they are all BBC alumni. I have listened to the BBC since I was a 13 year old kid with a shortwave radio. RT is good, most of the time, but sometimes it's just crap.
>I think the USSR experience has shown us otherwise
I dunno, man, Yeltsin shelling Parliament sure looked like civil war to me. George Clinton unavailable for comment.
>but let's assume it's true and you have to decide between a domestic civil war and the USG deploying biological agents around the world. What's the math on that?
There is no math at that point except a measurement of entropy/chaos. At that point the US has become a rogue state.
The outcomes of civil wars aren't always predictable even if the incumbent side loses.
This may very well be intractable, but I find it unacceptable for people who have the ability to do something about it to do nothing, like the Media as a whole who have gone from actual reporting to repeating government press releases.
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>modded funny
I guess someone totally missed all the discussion by the 'content providers" of the "analog hole" a few years ago, and efforts to have the entire chain of audio "untappable" all the way to the speakers.
People have such short memories.
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It's not FUD. It's reality.
People who voted for Nader got W instead.
The GOP is going to make sure that RONPAUL is not going to run as a third party candidate, for the same reason. They will find his price and give him what he wants.
Third party candidates are merely spoilers in a 2 party winner-take-all system. Until we get ranked balloting and such, that's the way it's going to be. Deal with it.
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>RIAA, would you like to sue Microsoft for having software that ships in Windows that can record audio-out and save it to a wav/mp3 file?
The RIAA will not be satisfied until they successfully make illegal 3.5mm stereo patch cords that can go from audio-out to audio-in.
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Correction to the above post.
First link was YTD
Second link was 3 months.
Bah.
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>Given that they've just stiffed OEMs by announcing that literally EVERY unsold phone in the channel is now abandonware, they may NEED to start making their own. Who on earth would want to lose *more* money on phones that almost certainly won't sell?
Considering that nobody wants a Nokia Lumia, the "flagship," I'd say that abandoning Microsoft Phone OSes might be easy to do.
Maybe that was the plan. Reduce Nokia to a pile of rubble, buy the rubble, pretend it's the old Nokia. The whole Microsoft-Nokia story is all sorts of fucked up. I've got my popcorn for this soap opera.
All this news surely hasn't helped Nokia.
http://ompldr.org/vZWZoMw/Screenshot-2.png - Last 3 months
http://ompldr.org/vZWZoOQ/Screenshot-3.png - 30 days ago to now
I see nothing there bumping the trend. The last week was a hump and it's back to where it was http://ompldr.org/vZWZoZw/Screenshot-4.png People bought on the rumours of news, and now that the news is out, it's gone. Speaking of the crowd not being particularly enthused with Surface and WP8, here's the MSFT chart.
http://ompldr.org/vZWZoag/Screenshot-5.png - One dollar bump and then "oh well" back to 30 bucks.
And to overlay, both companies as if this might mean something:
http://ompldr.org/vZWZobg/Screenshot-6.png
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>So don't vote for Romney. Vote third party. Or stop pretending you want to make things better.
Voting for a third party is voting for the guy you hate the most.
That's the reality. Until we get rid of this current voting system we have and replace it with another, that's what we've got. Other countries have voting systems that let multiple parties thrive, but our system is a winner-take-all two party system.
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When doctors know sin:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment
There are times when placebo tests are unconscionable. QED.
Sacrificing ethics for the sake of blindly following procedure is wrong and has led to the suffering of many people. Like the above syphilis study, once the data for untreated basal cell carcinoma patients is known we shouldn't collect more data. We do not need to deny treatment to people with basal cell carcinoma.
Sure, it's not perfect science, but people are not protons in an accelerator.
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Because we already know what happens to untreated cancers and have the statistics already gathered. We can compare the efficacy of these radioactive bandages to the data collected for untreated skin cancers over the last 100 years. We can then compare the efficacy or lack thereof to the historic numbers.
But we don't have to do that either. We can compare the efficacy of this treatment to other established treatments as controls. It will be either more or less effective. The key is to have something to compare.
Having people go untreated for the sake of formality is unconscionable.
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How is it a weird ruling?
It's one of the most sane rulings to come down the pike.
The other rulings that shock the conscience are the weird rulings.
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Microsoft is stuck with OEMs because they don't have the resources to supply an entire computer market with their own hardware.
This is categorically false.
You have no idea how big the electronics contract manufacturers are or what they are.
They are the people who actually manufacture the devices for the OEMs. Microsoft can surely hire Foxconn or Flextronics to build their tablets. iPads and Surface tablets coming off parallel assembly lines in the same building at Foxconn. Don't think it can't or won't happen.
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What's the future for Nokia?
Look at both of these URLs and you tell me.
http://ompldr.org/vZWQzcw/charting.the.charts.png
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-06-15/moodys-downgrades-nokia-to-junk-status
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It's funny how you mentioned Beastie Boys. Both groups were at the height of their talent at the same time in the 80s.
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Well, it's official.
It's now a free-for-all on the Internet for nations to go head-to-head with malware and cyber-espionage. Just like Ike let the Soviets launch their Sputnik to clear the air (heh) about whether territorial rights extend into space (they don't), now the US and Israel have justified it for everyone else to do their own Flame and Stuxnet cyber-espionage.
Since the US is supposedly the leader of the free world, we can either lead by good example or bad. Setting a bad example gets us exactly what we deserve.
Cuing up "What Goes Around, Comes Around" by Chuck Greenberg and Shadowfax.
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Japanese baths.
Great, big, Japanese baths.
Think about it!
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CURSE YOU!
*shakes tiny fist*
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So now I can sleep through this movie at 48FPS like I slept through the rest of the Ring movies at 24FPS?
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>Kinect Glasses is marked as a 2014 project designed to connect to a future Xbox 720 console.
And not tethered to a smartphone or at least a wifi handheld, so you can go *outside* and actually *use* augmented reality?
Way to kill your innovation in the cradle, Microsoft.
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>maybe even Ballmer's.
Unpossible. Ballmer owns too many voting shares to be kicked off.
How do you think he's lasted this long with a down/flat stock price since the DotBomb?
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Meanwhile, Moody's gives Nokia a kick in the teeth, deservedly.
Nokia downgraded to junk
HELSINKI (AP) â" Moody's ratings agency on Friday downgraded Nokia's debt grade to junk status, citing greater than anticipated pressure on the struggling cellphone maker's earnings after it announced plans for major cuts and global layoffs. It kept the outlook negative, meaning it could downgrade it again.
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-06-15/moodys-downgrades-nokia-to-junk-status
(Just read that on another board).
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>So Russia and the USA are criminal terrorists? They both have bioweapons and refuse to destroy them...
Yes. Problem?
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So Elop is taking a former powerhouse of a company and turning it into a patent troll. I'm so fucking impressed. It's as if Elop is *deliberately* trying to sink the company by making stupid decisions and avoiding core competencies.
This is the most rapid "controlled flight into terrain" that I've seen a large company do.
The "Burning Platform" memo went out in February of 2011. Look at the chart before - Nokia was slowly digging itself out of the hole. Look at the chart after. Just look at it.
http://ompldr.org/vZWQzcw/charting.the.charts.png
Source: Yahoo Finance NOK chart. Linear scale. 2 year.
That's right, Elop, there's your fuckin' record.
Good job destroying a company.
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>At least we still have Glen Greenwald, Amy Goodwin, Ben Swann, and some alternate news channels like RT, Al Jazeera, BBC International, et. al. Not that any one of them is to be trusted implicitly but where they tend to agree there might be some truth.
I find GG shrill and high-pitched in his writing far too often even though he is right many times. It makes him difficult to read.
I too get much of my news from non-US sources. Al J English is top notch, they are all BBC alumni. I have listened to the BBC since I was a 13 year old kid with a shortwave radio. RT is good, most of the time, but sometimes it's just crap.
>velvet revolution, etc
If only all revolutions were that way.
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>>That's not going to happen without civil war.
>I think the USSR experience has shown us otherwise
I dunno, man, Yeltsin shelling Parliament sure looked like civil war to me. George Clinton unavailable for comment.
>but let's assume it's true and you have to decide between a domestic civil war and the USG deploying biological agents around the world. What's the math on that?
There is no math at that point except a measurement of entropy/chaos. At that point the US has become a rogue state.
The outcomes of civil wars aren't always predictable even if the incumbent side loses.
This may very well be intractable, but I find it unacceptable for people who have the ability to do something about it to do nothing, like the Media as a whole who have gone from actual reporting to repeating government press releases.
*grumble grumble*
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>Replace the system with one that can behave in a non-psychopathic manner
That's not going to happen without civil war.
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>Not disagreeing, but do you think we have any recourse at all, given the current system?
So just give up? Don't hold up the mirror to the emperor to show he has no clothes?
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